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Emory Kemp Glass and Ceramics Lantern Slide Collection

Creator:
Kemp, Emory L. (Professor)  Search this
Names:
West Virginia University.  Search this
Extent:
0.1 Cubic feet (1 box)
Glass plates, 3-1/4" x 4", silver gelatin.
Container:
Box 1
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Slides
Place:
West Virginia
Date:
1930's.
Summary:
A collection of lantern slides used as teaching aids by Dr. Emory Leland Kemp, Jr. (1931-2020) founder of the Department of the History of Science and Technology, West Virgnia University.
Scope and Contents note:
Seventeen photographic lantern slides on glass and pottery manufacture. Includes diagrams of a gas-fired glass tank, the Fourcault process for making plate glass, the Colburn process for making sheet glass, a recuperative glass tank, silica minerals, a graph of the time-temperature curve for annealing flat glass, and pictures of the Kastner Neill Process calcining furnace, a pug mill, kilns at West Virginia University and pottery made there, and a porcelain decorating factory.
Biographical/Historical note:
Dr. Emory Leland Kemp, Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois on 1931 October 1. He held a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He was a Civil Engineering Professor at West Virginia University and established the University's History of Science and Technology program. He also founded the Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology. One of his projects was the roof project for the Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Austrailia. Dr. Kemp was an avid Historic Preservationist and he assisted in getting many locations on the National Register of Historic Places and as National Historic Landmarks. He was co-Author of a book on the Wheeling Suspension Bridge Wheeling, West Virginia.These slides were used by Dr. Kemp as teaching aids at West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Dr. Kemp died 2020 January 20 in Morgantown, West Virginia. His body was donated to West Virginia University for study.
Provenance:
Collection donated by Professor Emory L. Kemp, 1985, May 14.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Occupation:
Potters  Search this
Ceramicists  Search this
Topic:
Photographs -- Porcelain, American -- decorating  Search this
Photographs -- Pottery industry -- U.S.A.  Search this
Photographs -- China painting -- United States  Search this
Photographs -- Ceramics -- United States  Search this
Glass manufacture  Search this
Citation:
Emory Kemp Glass and Ceramics Lantern Slides, ca. 1930s, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Identifier:
NMAH.AC.0138
Archival Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep85766683a-3267-4ae3-b8eb-e9d8a90c8d70
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-0138

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